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Purple Aki | |
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| Born | Akinwale Oluwafolajimi Oluwatope Arobieke 15 July 1961 Crumpsall, Lancashire, England |
| Motive | Obsessive behaviour |
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Akinwale Oluwafolajimi Oluwatope Arobieke (born 15 July 1961), commonly known as Purple Aki, is a British man known for his criminal convictions for harassment. He has been convicted for touching and measuring the muscles of young men and asking them to squat his body weight.
These crimes were originally ruled as sexually motivated - in 2006 Merseyside Police successfully applied to Liverpool Magistrates' Court for a Sexual Offences Prevention Order.[1] This was lifted in May 2016,[2] and Arobieke has never been convicted of a sexual offence.[3]
On 12 September 2016 BBC Three published an online documentary about Arobieke called The Man Who Squeezes Muscles: Searching for Purple Aki.[4] Later that year, he made an allegation against the BBC of incitement to racial hatred, complaining to Merseyside Police that the documentary was racist and had demonised him.[3]
- ^ "Man banned from touching muscles". BBC News. 23 October 2006. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ^ Bainbridge, Pete; Nevitt, Joshua (5 May 2016). "Muscle obsessed bodybuilder vows to 'reinvent himself' after decade long ban on touching men's biceps is lifted". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ^ a b Hattenstone, Simon; Allison, Eric (21 October 2016). "Bodybuilder's race hate claim against BBC investigated by police". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ^ Nissim, Mayer (12 September 2016). "Watch BBC Three's new Purple Aki documentary". Digital Spy. Retrieved 20 April 2022.